Abolishing fares on buses and trains, proponents argue, delivers a windfall for the climate. The logic feels straightforward: make public transport free and drivers will abandon their cars. Cities that...
The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020 under a ratified Withdrawal Agreement. Article 50 extensions averted immediate cliff edges scheduled for 29 March and 31 October...
In September 2020, the European Court of Justice definitively rejected Austria's challenge to the European Commission's approval of UK state aid for the Hinkley Point C power station. The ruling...
In 2018, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory demonstrated a single hybrid device that splits water with sunlight to produce hydrogen fuel and usable electricity simultaneously. Described in Nature Materials, the proof-of-concept...
In 1980, Beijing designated Shenzhen and three other coastal cities as Special Economic Zones, permitting foreign investment and market mechanisms in tightly controlled spaces. Forty-three years later, China is the...
In September 2020, President Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that China would aim for peak CO2 emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. Those two dates, enshrined...
A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has engineered a strain of cyanobacteria that produces both bioplastic and biofuel using nothing but sunlight and...
When the Brexit transition ended on 31 December 2020, the United Kingdom lost live access to the Schengen Information System (SIS II). That database held more than 40,000 alerts as...
The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, set a goal to hold global average temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it...
The radical longevity movement makes a single, arresting claim: ageing is a medical condition, not a natural inevitability, and it can be slowed, halted, or reversed within decades. The people...
Fifth-generation cellular technology changes healthcare only where 4G LTE physically could not deliver. That is a narrower set of applications than the marketing suggests, but the ones that work are...
Wylfa Newydd was a proposed nuclear power station on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, cancelled after Hitachi failed to reach a financing agreement with the UK government. Hitachi suspended...
